The Electronic Music Thread

Ahh! Been listening to some Orbital. Simply love their style of music. Future Sound Of London, another great band.
 
For the minimal/ambient fans...

Morgan Packard has been working on electronic music in various forms for over a decade, using his classical and jazz training to inform what he does in subtle ways - whether it’s drum and bass, a soundtrack for a modern dance performance, or his versions of abstract techno and ambient sound. While his music may be wrangled into the minimal category, he is actually eschewing minimal tropes in favor of highly wrought arrangements - fitting multiple sensibilities into music that could easily be mistaken for existing genres, though when explored carefully, hardly fits into any. Using the idea of techno/house/breakbeat music as a beginning, not an end unto itself, Morgan arrives at a sound which manages to include various ideas from the worlds of electronics, jazz, and classical in a manner that has no hint of experimentation, but rather a purposeful, concrete rendering of his vision - combining a composer’s heart with a programmer’s brain.

Morgan Packard’s debut solo full-length, Airships Fill the Sky, finds him folding cello, accordion and saxophone into a decidedly digital context - involving fragmented elements of techno, house, breakbeat oriented microsound and post-ambient tendencies - retaining his acoustic sensibilities in earnest, while taking advantage of his long-time immersion in a variety of electronic genres. While he has further honed the melodic, textural meanderings from some of his past work, here, Packard returns to his rhythmic roots, and continues to filter his jazz and classical background through everything he does. Deftly using his self-made software techniques, he puts these pieces together with a view towards the hypnotic power of the loop, coupled with a distancing from it.
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Morgan Packard - Airships Fill the Sky

Great stuff.
 
From Wiki:
The Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (occasionally referred to as Chemical Tom and Chemical Ed). Initially they called themselves "The Dust Brothers", after the noted United States production duo of the same name, but the threat of legal action from the originals led them to change their name in 1995. Along with Fatboy Slim, Depeche Mode and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts they are pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s, and are known for high-quality live sets.


Indeed they are!
 
When I go out I enjoy the doef-doef.

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A free party... Can you believe it?
 
PostmanPot said:
Which would you recommend? :)
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Both The Rise and The Fall are pretty cool, as is his remix of Nude. Steer clear of the Madonna remix. Everything else is pretty listenable, actually.

Unfortunately you can only download the whole album as a zip. But, both MP3 and FLAC formats are available.
 
Compl33t said:
Both The Rise and The Fall are pretty cool, as is his remix of Nude. Steer clear of the Madonna remix. Everything else is pretty listenable, actually.

Unfortunately you can only download the whole album as a zip. But, both MP3 and FLAC formats are available.
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Ta.
 
Finally found this:

06:21:03:11 Up Evil is an album by Front 242, released in 1993.

. . . ben looking for it for some time now. I originally had it on cassette but lost i a few years back. Great stuff!
 
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